Toby's Diary

Yesterday I found a brilliant place to hide my collar. I slipped it off and whispered, "Josie, hide this" and she settled down on top of it.

To make sure that mum then looked for it I asked to go out. Mum gave me the usual lecture about needing to find my collar and the game was on. I helpfully trotted round with her. Was it in mum's bedroom? No. Was it in the sitting room? No - she couldn't see it there. Was it in the hall? No. To and fro she went looking more and more deeply under things and behind things and Josie was doing an excellent impersonation of a sleepy cat and I was chuckling away to myself.

In the end mum said, "I give up. No going out for you. Where could it be?" and she sat down on the sofa next to Josie and then she spotted the end of it, a tiny piece of yellow under Josie's fluffy tummy.

She slid it out and how we laughed! Mum looked at Josie, "How?" she demanded to know, "Why?" but we weren't telling.